Background and Objectives: HIV infected patients are at risk for vaccine-preventable infections such as tetanus and diphtheria (Td). In these patients, these antibodies tend to decline faster. Due to the limited data, this study assessed the seroprevalence of tetanus and diphtheria antibodies in HIV infected patients in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: This case-control study was carried o...

Abstract The mammalian gut lumen contains an extremely diverse collection of microbial species and dietary constituents. Protein carbohydrate antigens on commensal bacterial surfaces stimulate the production specific antibodies, which can be secreted bind their epitopes in lumen. Despite high abundance plant polysaccharides (dietary fiber) intestine, it remains unclear whether these foreign car...

objective: to investigate possible immunological humoral correlates in newly diagnosed adult-onset generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy among iranian patients before and after sodium valproate treatment.   patients and methods: 72 adult patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy were recruited. serum antinuclear antibodies (ana), anti-cardiolipin antibodies (acl), a...

Introduction. Trastuzumab is the first known anti-HER2 agent, which revolutionized treatment of one most common cancer types – breast cancer. Despite trastuzumab being approved long time ago, further improvement related analytical methods remains relevant primarily due to emergence new biosimilars. For instance, immunogenicity adverse reaction usually associated with biological drugs, can still...

Anti-NOR90 antibodies are usually found in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc); however, their clinical relevance remains obscure. We previously developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring them to investigate the features of anti-NOR90 antibodies. As we additionally obtained antibody-positive serum samples after our previous research, reexamined significance Serum fr...